Deadpool movie confirmed?

With the success of the recent Wolverine movie still ringing in their ears, and with Ryan Reynolds' portrayal of Deadpool popular, it was a fairly easy decision for Marvel Studios to decide to speed up the development of a Deadpool movie.

Ryan Reynolds will return in the lead role and, although no details are yet available on the direction of the film, Marvel are said to be ramping up resources attached to the project. Expect to see more announcements soon!

Deadpool Catch Up

Deadpool is a comic book character sometimes depicted as a mercenary or antihero; he was created by artist Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza and first appeared in The New Mutants #98 (February 1991).

Nicknamed the "Merc with a Mouth", Deadpool is a high-tech mercenary known for his wisecracks, black comedy, and satirical pop-culture references. Like the X-Men's Wolverine, Deadpool is the product of the Canadian government's paramilitary Weapon X program, although his place of birth is unknown. After Weapon X cured his terminal cancer by implementing a regenerative "healing factor" extracted from Wolverine, Deadpool is left disfigured and mentally unstable.